By Arie Kaplan
Pirates are outlaws who dedicate crimes at sea. all through historical past they've got attacked cargo-laden ships to pillage gold, silver, human slaves, and necessary foodstuffs. Twenty-first-century pirates take crews hostage and insist ransoms. a few even siphon off petroleum from tanker ships.
The international of pirates is one among violence and financial desperation. but over the centuries, pirates have received a name as rugged adventurers and heroes. Novelists, playwrights, cartoonists, and screenwriters have created quite a lot of stories exhibiting pirates as noble or even lovely figures.
Swashbuckling Scoundrels introduces readers to real-life pirates—medieval Viking raiders, Caribbean buccaneers, black pirates, lady pirates, and modern day pirates—as good as recognized fictional characters resembling lengthy John Silver and Mary "Jacky" Faber of the Bloody Jack sequence of novels. See how old and fictional pirates evaluate and why we thrill to stories of bold outlaw pirates.
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